Hannah looked at him for a long moment, her expression going cold again as he treated her honest need for reassurance in this manner. The naked young woman turned her back on him and knelt, her athletic thighs tensing as she closed her eyes and prayed for the first time since she was a little girl, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me."

When she was done, she rose to the extent that she could in the cage and faced her captor once more. "I am a human being. That is why I speak as one. I am not a bird and I will not answer to being addressed as one. My name is Hannah Green. I have a mother and a father who love me. I have hopes and dreams and a life which you are trying to take away from me. Go ahead and shock but I won't give you the pleasure of sitting on that thing."